 | Bernard Shaw, Dan H. Laurence - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 264 pages
...eternal night. (V.iii) 2L On 6 August 1763, Boswell reports of Dr. Johnson. "[W]e stood talking for some time together of Bishop Berkeley's ingenious...with which Johnson answered, striking his foot with mighty force against a large stone, till he rebounded from it, 'I refute it thus.' " 22. Gammon—the... | |
 | Michael F. Hoyt - Psychology - 1998 - 408 pages
...Samuel Johnson more than two centuries ago: "After we came out of the church, we stood talking for some time together of Bishop Berkeley's ingenious...sophistry to prove the non-existence of matter, and that everything in the universe is merely ideal. I observed, that though we are satisfied his doctrine is... | |
 | Willi Erzgräber - Experimental fiction, English - 1998 - 412 pages
...Johnson ebenfalls mit einer Gebärde den Gegenbeweis führte; Boswell bemerkt (in Life, 6. August 1763): »I never shall forget the alacrity with which Johnson answered, striking his foot with mighty force against a large stone, till he rebounded from it, >I refute it thus<«'5. Daraus ist zu... | |
 | Kevin Hart - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 254 pages
...Johnson answering Boswell on the truth of Bishop Berkeley's theory of the non-existence of matter. 'I observed, that though we are satisfied his doctrine...with which Johnson answered, striking his foot with mighty force against a large stone, till he rebounded from it, "I refute it thus" ' (Life, 1, 471).... | |
 | Robert Kirk - Realism - 1999 - 206 pages
...seems no conflict between instrumentalism and the evidence of the senses. 5 '...we stood talking for some time together of Bishop Berkeley's ingenious...universe is merely ideaL I observed. that though we arc satisfied his doctrine is not true. it is impossible to refute it. I never shall forgei the alacrity... | |
 | George Parkin Grant, Henry Roper - Biography & Autobiography - 2000 - 552 pages
...the existence of external objects on 6 August 1763, as recorded by Boswell: '... We stood talking for some time together of Bishop Berkeley's ingenious...with which Johnson answered, striking his foot with mighty force against a large stone til he rebounded from it -"I refute it thus.'" (New York: Everyman... | |
 | Edward Geoffrey Parrinder, Geoffrey Parrinder - Reference - 2000 - 389 pages
...hand of Mr Hume in 1739. Sydney Smith, Sketches of Moral Philosophy (1850) 30 We stood talking for some time together of Bishop Berkeley's ingenious sophistry to prove the non-existence of matter ... It is impossible to refute it ... Johnson answered, striking his foot with mighty force against... | |
 | Robert J. Fogelin - Electronic books - 2001 - 184 pages
...Chapter 6 Objections from common sense {34^49) After we came out of the church, we stood talking for some time together of Bishop Berkeley's ingenious...and that every thing in the universe is merely ideaL 1 observed, that though we are satisfied that his doctrine is not true, it is impossible to refute... | |
 | Michael F. Hoyt - Psychology - 2001 - 328 pages
...Dr. Samuel Johnson more than two centuries ago: After we came out of the church, we stood talking for some time together of Bishop Berkeley's ingenious...sophistry to prove the non-existence of matter, and that everything in the universe is merely ideal. I observed, that though we are satisfied his doctrine is... | |
 | James Ishmael Ford - Buddhism - 2002 - 132 pages
...instance, James Boswell in Life of Johnson recounts: After we came out of the church, we stood talking for some time together of Bishop Berkeley's ingenious...sophistry to prove the non-existence of matter, and that everything in the universe is merely ideal. I observed that though we are satisfied his doctrine is... | |
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After we came out of the church, we stood talking for some time together of bishop Berkeley's ingenious sophistry to prove the non-existence of matter, and that every thing in the universe is merely ideal. I observed, that though we are satisfied his... 
